What's Wrong With Enterprise Applications, And What Are Vendors Doing About It?
P.J. Jakovljevic & Olin Thompson - June 21, 2003

Introduction

The rapid pace of global business nowadays places a unique set of challenges on all enterprises looking to improve and automate their operations, and at the same time, remain poised to adapt quickly to change. With increased competition, deregulation, globalization, and mergers & acquisition activity, enterprise software buyers realize that product architecture plays a key role in how quickly vendors can implement, maintain, expand/customize, and integrate their products...